Jumeirah Village Circle

Jumeirah Village Circle was Nakheel's attempt at a village inside the city: 811 hectares between Al Khail Road and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road, laid out as clusters of low and mid-rise blocks around a ring road, with more than thirty landscaped parks threaded between them.

Rents run well below Marina or Downtown for the same number of bedrooms, which is what draws young families and professionals, and it is one of the few parts of Dubai where landlords routinely accept pets. The trade-offs are the ring road at rush hour and the lack of a metro station. Dozens of developers built here block by block, so quality varies more between neighbouring towers than it does in most Dubai communities, which is exactly what the reviews below are for.